{"id":57,"date":"2006-12-20T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","slug":"iran-pakistan-rail-link-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iran-pakistan-rail-link-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8211; Pakistan rail link progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The January 2007 issue of\u00a0the\u00a0industry\u00a0magazine <cite>Railway Gazette International<\/cite> has an illustrated article about progress with the construction of a rail link to fill in the gap between Iran and Pakistan. At the moment a Pakistan Railways broad gauge line runs to across the border into Iran as far as Zahedan, but RAI doesn&#8217;t yet join up with it from the west.<\/p>\n<p>The article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/Articles\/2007\/01\/01\/3539\/Closing+the+gap+from+Bam+to+Zahedan.html\" title=\"Closing the gap from Bam to Zahedan - article in Railway Gazette International\">Closing the gap from Bam to Zahedan<\/a> is written by Dr John Stubbs, who has travelled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derby.ac.uk\/gees\/jollyfranc\/londontomumbaitrain.htm\">London to Mumbai by train<\/a> (and bus).<\/p>\n<p>The always-useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/Pakistan.htm#International\">Seat61<\/a> warns <q>Trains run Quetta &#8211; Zahedan (Iran) twice a month.  However, in October 2006 it&#8217;s reported that these trains have been stopped because of repeated bomb attacks.  Alternative buses may be available, please check locally.<\/q><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January 2007 issue of\u00a0the\u00a0industry\u00a0magazine Railway Gazette International has an illustrated article about progress with the construction of a rail link to fill in the gap between Iran and Pakistan. At the moment a Pakistan Railways broad gauge line runs to across the border into Iran as far as Zahedan, but RAI doesn&#8217;t yet join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}